In 1965 he graduated from the Ural Music College as a wind band conductor and bayan teacher, in 1970 from the Saratov L. V. Sobinov Conservatory as a conductor of folk instrument orchestra and bayan teacher, and in 1977 from the same conservatory as a composer and teacher of theoretical disciplines.
In 1978 he became a member of the Union of Composers of the USSR.
Teaching activity.
In 1972 he taught at the Saratov Music College, where he founded and headed the department of light and jazz music, and at the Saratov Conservatory, where he directed bayan ensembles and taught orchestration for folk instrument orchestra.
Conducting activity.
In 1978 he was invited to become Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Kaluga Concert Orchestra, touring Russian cities with soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre, People’s Artists of the USSR, and Leonid Smetannikov of the Saratov Opera. From 1978 he collaborated with Yuri Silantyev’s light‑and‑symphonic orchestra (which recorded several of his works in Portugal), the State Wind Orchestra of Russia, the N. P. Osipov National Academic Folk Orchestra of Russia, the Karelian State Ensemble of Folk Music under V. Meshcherin, and Oleg Lundstrem’s Concert Jazz Orchestra; more than thirty of his works were recorded for the All‑Union Radio and Television archive.
His first author’s concert took place in 1976 at the Saratov Conservatory with the student folk instrument orchestra he conducted. He has given more than three hundred author concerts in Russian cities with folk instrument orchestras and has collaborated with singers Anna Litvinenko, Lyudmila Ryumina, Anna Strelchenko, Tatyana Petrova, and others.
Four CDs and two DVDs of his music have been released, along with a CD recorded jointly with the male chamber choir conducted by V. Rybin. He is a laureate of numerous international and all‑Union competitions.
Scholarly, methodological, and public work.
In the 1980s he toured as accompanist with a vocal ensemble of Leningrad siege survivors, giving around four hundred concerts. His pieces for folk instrument orchestra, romances, songs, and works for trumpet and other instruments have been published by Sovetsky kompozitor and Muzyka. More recently, the Military Conducting Department has issued collections including his three‑movement Concerto for vibraphone, the suite «Tête‑à‑tête» for alto saxophone, a piece for tenor saxophone, and other works. He regularly gives orchestration lectures in professional‑development courses for conductors of folk instrument orchestras throughout Russia, and also collaborates with a military symphony orchestra and the Exemplary Military Wind Band of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
In 2005 he was awarded the Order of Friendship, and in 2012 the Moscow Union of Composers honoured him with the Gold Medal «For Collaboration and Contribution to the Development and Promotion of Contemporary Music».
He has taught at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since 2008.
